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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Machiavelli" data-source="post: 3407826" data-attributes="member: 40964">Hm, perhaps the best approach to a balanced Powerful Build LA+0 would be a racial hitdie, coupled with a bonus feat?I just so happen to see Powerful Build as a very beneficial racial ability.  The ideas I can think of to balance it back to LA+0 don't mesh well with a physically imposing figure.  Without invoking some very interesting fluff, a race with Powerful Build should probably also have a Str and/or Con bonus, and perhaps even increased speed.Here's an idea:FimblywhatsitThe reclusive fimblywhatsits live in the densest woods, where little can be learned of them by outsiders.  Some say they were once not so different from elves, but over the centuries they used strange magic to distort their bodies into gaunt and unnatural forms.  They dart through the forest's many shadows and patches of thick cover, preferring to be constantly on the move.Medium Size Humanoid30ft movement-2 Dex, -2 Con, -2 ChaPowerful BuildLow-Light Vision+2 racial bonus on Spot and Listen checksQuadrupedal: As a free action, when carrying nothing in its hands and using its hands for nothing else, a fimblywhatsit may move on all four limbs to gain +20 base movement.Shifty: A fimblywhatsit's gaunt, quickly and constantly moving frame offers a +2 deflection bonus to AC while conscious and not bound or constricted in any way.  This bonus is lost when the fimblywhatsit loses its Dex bonus (if any) to armor class.Favored Class: ScoutLA: +0</blockquote>

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